New Paradise Laboratories Moves In

October 1st marked a new era for us over here. This is New Paradise Laboratories, moving their headquarters to the Maas building. They're setting up their office in one of the downstairs spaces. And they're super cool! Here's a link to their site: newparadiselaboratories.org.

Urban Academy Visits from NYC

Urban Academy, a public high school in NYC, sent a group down for a Philly field-trip. Ostensibly, they were in Philadelphia to study horses, but we think they came down just to camp out in our warehouse. It was fun, we made pasta and burgers and talked about the "G" word, but no one could beat Ben at ping pong.

All things have an origin: Rachel Birdsall, longtime teacher at Urban Academy "a small school with big ideas" is Catherine's sister.

September Photos

The entryway... with our home-made bench, hewn from an old beam left in the yard. Orange tree given to us frozen solid last winter by a neighbor. We nursed it back to life. It may need a new pot?

I stitched together this panoramic of the upstairs space. Try clicking the photo to see it a bit larger in a new window. This almost captures how cool it is. Anyway, it's quite nearly done.

The kitchen. Functional, needs some cabinets but the sink and stove work. 2 bathrooms off of this room also.